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Hal Finney’s ‘Bitcoin and Me’

A reading of a touching BitcoinTalk post by the late Hal Finney, from exactly eight years ago.

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A reading of a touching BitcoinTalk post by the late Hal Finney, from exactly eight years ago.

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io and Casper, and this week’s special product launch, NEM.

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On this edition of “Long Reads Sunday,” NLW reads a BitcoinTalk forum from exactly eight years ago - Hal Finney’s “Bitcoin and Me.” The piece is about the origins of Bitcoin, and more broadly, life’s treasures.

Pictured with his two Rhodesian ridgeback
Pictured with his two Rhodesian ridgeback

See also: Previously Unpublished Emails Between Satoshi Nakamoto and Hal Finney Present a New Puzzle

Cover image credit: Max S. Gerber

HOST

Nathaniel Whittemore

NLW is an independent strategy and communications consultant for leading crypto companies as well as host of The Breakdown – the fastest-growing podcast in crypto. Whittemore has been a VC with Learn Capital, was on the founding team of Change.org, and founded a program design center at his alma mater Northwestern University that helped inspire the largest donation in the school’s history.

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